Go to content
${facet.Name} (${facet.TotalResults})
${item.Icon}
${ item.ShortDescription }
${ item.SearchLabel?.ViewModel?.Label }
See all results
${facet.Name} (${facet.TotalResults})
${item.Icon}
${ item.ShortDescription }
${ item.SearchLabel?.ViewModel?.Label }
See all results

Biography

Phillip Kite
Phillip Kite Harneys front portrait image

Phillip "really impresses".

Legal 500

Phillip Kite

Consultant | British Virgin Islands
+1 284 346 5466 phillip.kite@harneys.com
Biography

Phillip Kite is a consultant in the Litigation & Insolvency and Restructuring team based in our British Virgin Islands office. He helps clients win complex, high-profile and high-value cross-border commercial litigation and contentious insolvency matters. He is an experienced BVI litigator with significant offshore insight and is able to advise clients from all angles, having been involved in most of the largest litigation and insolvency cases in the BVI for over 20 years. He regularly acts on matters before the BVI Court of Appeal and Privy Council. He specialises in fraud and shareholder disputes and contentious trusts and probate. An ...

Phillip Kite is a consultant in the Litigation & Insolvency and Restructuring team based in our British Virgin Islands office. He helps clients win complex, high-profile and high-value cross-border commercial litigation and contentious insolvency matters.

He is an experienced BVI litigator with significant offshore insight and is able to advise clients from all angles, having been involved in most of the largest litigation and insolvency cases in the BVI for over 20 years. He regularly acts on matters before the BVI Court of Appeal and Privy Council.

He specialises in fraud and shareholder disputes and contentious trusts and probate. An expert in enforcement, he provides advice on all aspects of obtaining interim relief in aid of foreign arbitrations, asset-tracing and preservation and foreign judgments.

Phillip’s approach makes him very easy to work with as he is confident, calm and straight to the point

Creating value beyond legal solutions is also key to the relationships he builds with clients and, where appropriate and beneficial, he will often connect them with other key contacts.

Phillip is able to assist law firms in pitching for BVI work with insight into the latest trends and decisions in the BVI Court system.

His opinions and comments on related offshore news, legislation and cases can be found on the Offshore Litigation Blog and he is also a contributing editor to British Virgin Islands Commercial Law, Sweet & Maxwell. He is a solicitor advocate and a member of the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners, the Chancery Bar Association and the Commercial Bar Association.

${ !hiddenTextVisible ?"Read more": " Show less"}
Recommendations

Phillip is currently recognised as a Thought Leader in the GIR - Asset Recovery guide; and a Global Leader in the Commercial Litigation guide.

Phillip is currently recognised as a Thought Leader in the GIR - Asset Recovery guide; and a Global Leader in the Commercial Litigation guide.

Phillip has been recognised as a Global Leader in the Investigations and Asset Recovery guides.

Phillip is ranked for his Commercial Litigation expertise.

Phillip has been recognised as a Global Leader in the Asset Recovery guide.

Phillip is ranked for his BVI Dispute Resolution expertise. Clients say, "He is a very wise and insightful litigator."

Phillip is recognised as a "Private Client Global Elite".

Phillip is recognised as a "leading individual".

Phillip is ranked for his BVI Dispute Resolution expertise.

Phillip is recognised as a leading lawyer in the private client space.

Phillip is recommended in the "Commercial Litigation - British Virgin Islands" Advisory guide.

${ !hiddenTextVisible ?"Read more": " Show less"}

Anguilla
1998

British Virgin Islands
1997

England and Wales (not practising)
1992

Chester College of Law
1990

University of Birmingham (LLB)
1989

Phillip "really impresses".
Legal 500

Authored by Phillip

Offshore Litigation Blog
Breaking news: Salford Estates overturned
Offshore Litigation Blog
BVI Insolvency Law in 60 Seconds
Regulatory Blog
General sanctions licence issued by OFSI in the UK to facilitate payment of legal fees
Article
Harneys secures Tier 1 in Legal 500 UK rankings
Offshore Litigation Blog
Can a director owe fiduciary duties to shareholders?
Offshore Litigation Blog
Privy Council permits enforcement of arbitral award under New York Convention despite alleged lack of due process
Article
Don’t make a Goose out of a Black Swan: Norwich Pharmacal relief after Broad Idea No. 2
Article
Harneys “seamless 24/7 offering” secures Tier 1 in Legal 500 UK rankings
Offshore Litigation Blog
What level of risk of dissipation of assets is required for the grant of an asset freezing injunction?
Offshore Litigation Blog
Court of Appeal confirms that only fees incurred by BVI enrolled legal practitioners are recoverable
Offshore Litigation Blog
A foreign helping hand: US and Hong Kong discovery in support of Cayman Islands litigation
Offshore Litigation Blog
Position Paper on Parallel Schemes of Arrangement: the Harneys “Schemario Rules”
Offshore Litigation Blog
The Wrecking Ball vs the Crystal Ball – planning a parallel scheme of arrangement
Offshore Litigation Blog
Momentous decisions for trustees – Public Trustee v Cooper Applications in the BVI
Offshore Litigation Blog
Scheme sanction and uncompromised creditors
Offshore Litigation Blog
Stingray Trust: a tale of two representatives and two jurisdictions
News and Deals
Harneys recognised in Legal Week’s Private Client Global Elite 2021
Offshore Litigation Blog
Litigation funding in the Cayman Islands – The new Private Funding of Legal Services Act
Offshore Litigation Blog
Black Swan 2.0
Offshore Litigation Blog
Black Swan resurrected
Article
Snapshot of key enforcement methods in the BVI
Article
Harneys named in GRR 100 list of top law firms
Offshore Litigation Blog
Cayman court resolves potential problem in share mortgage enforcement
Article
Harneys wins Who’s Who Legal’s Asset Recovery Firm of the Year
Offshore Litigation Blog
Cayman Islands Court facilitates restructuring opportunity for company facing an imminent Hong Kong insolvency winding up order
News and Deals
Harneys London recognised as top tier in Chambers UK rankings
News and Deals
Harneys London retains Tier 1 status for the 4th consecutive year
Offshore Litigation Blog
Black Swan, stayin’ alive
Offshore Litigation Blog
Privy Council analyses the validity of family trusts
Offshore Litigation Blog
The value of finality: BVI Court deals robustly with attempt to introduce evidence after judgment
Offshore Litigation Blog
BVI Commercial Court applies Chabra relief liberally in the wake of Broad Idea (No.2)
Offshore Litigation Blog
BVI Court grapples with principles of foreign law in enforcing multiparty arbitral award
Offshore Litigation Blog
It’s okay to stay: Recent BVI and English Cases in lockstep on exercise of discretion to stay winding up application in favour of arbitration
Offshore Litigation Blog
Directors, betrayal and authority - The Privy Council considers directors’ duties and an extension of the Duomatic principle
Offshore Litigation Blog
UK Supreme Court brings the distorted principle of “reflective loss” back into focus
Offshore Litigation Blog
Internal affairs: the New York Supreme Court applies Cayman Islands law on derivative actions
Offshore Litigation Blog
Bresco Electrical Services Ltd v Michael J Lonsdale (Electrical) Ltd: Compatibility between the adjudication process and the insolvency regime
Funds Hub
The Funds Download - The Great Recession - When things go horribly wrong
Funds Hub
The Funds Download - A shadow over the global economy. What should I be thinking about now as the manager or an independent director of a Fund?
Offshore Litigation Blog
Norwich Pharmacal Relief - A Good Arguable Case v Reasonable Suspicion of Wrongdoing
Offshore Litigation Blog
Bermuda Courts join the move to virtual hearings during COVID-19 pandemic
Offshore Litigation Blog
We won - how much do we get in costs?
Offshore Litigation Blog
International conventions, the United Kingdom and their application to Overseas Territories
Offshore Litigation Blog
Hands off! EC court of appeal rules on beneficiaries’ standing to prevent interference with trust assets
Offshore Litigation Blog
Contempt of court for ticket touting in breach of court order
Offshore Litigation Blog
Judicial comity between Courts in the Cayman Islands and in Hong Kong
Offshore Litigation Blog
Overriding legal professional privilege - The iniquity exception
Offshore Litigation Blog
BVI confirms jurisdiction for the Pooling of Liquidation Assets matching that of the Cayman Islands
Offshore Litigation Blog
Real world implications for cross-border insolvency
Offshore Litigation Blog
People-Initiated Referendums: Grand Court breathes life into direct democracy
Offshore Litigation Blog
To what extent will the courts accept public policy as a defence to enforcement?
Article
Harneys recognised for “best-in-class legal advice” – Chambers Global 2020
Offshore Litigation Blog
The cost of expert shopping
Offshore Litigation Blog
Victory for Shanda Games in Privy Council minority discount appeal
Offshore Litigation Blog
Hong Kong leads the way with its inaugural recognition of Mainland appointed Administrators
Offshore Litigation Blog
The Court of Appeal confirms that BVI liquidators can turn back time
Offshore Litigation Blog
Is a breakdown in mutual trust and confidence enough to wind a company up?
Article
“Outstanding, user-friendly, practical” - Harneys London retains top tier ranking
Offshore Litigation Blog
No more games as website blocking injunctions make their mark
Offshore Litigation Blog
Hong Kong Court clarifies the decision in Re Legend International Resorts Ltd
Legal update
Black Swan: Stand-alone injunctions in support of foreign proceedings
Legal update
The BVI's new Legal Profession Act: What English QCs need to know